Since the establishment of adolescence as a common stage of life, adolescents have struggled to gain autonomy. Autonomy is what gives people to right to make decisions for themselves, and this concept alone can be a push-and-pull situation for adolescents. In today’s society, this struggle for autonomy usually manifests itself into adolescent versus parent conflict. … Continue reading Blog #1 →

Vincent Peebles Word Count: 783 Originally I planned to write some about innocence in Charlotte Temple, but it was a fairly straightforward topic within this single novel. Mrs. Rowland follows a narrative about innocence that's become fairly stock even in her own time, after all. Various males pursue a cherishable innocence as an object to possess, in … Continue reading Fashionable Decay →

While reading the letters, essays, and poems that constitute The Lowell Offering, thoughts of poverty, obligation, and even destitution were never far from my mind. Young women plucked from the countryside, away from family and friends, and lured into a small community of peers who toil tirelessly. Carted away from the paths formal education, and … Continue reading To Catch A Predator (Economics Edition) JY →

The film The Hate U Give, directed by George Tillman, Jr., addresses the racial inequalities and issues young, blacks teens face in America.  The movie follows a black teenage girl, Starr, who attends a predominantly white Catholic school on the nice side of town, but lives in an all black community with her family.  At school, … Continue reading The Hate U Give and Adolescence →

Once the snowstorm forces George and his father to stay at Lewis’s house:   We were sitting on my bed while Albert, ma, and Mr. Haddonfield were downstairs, reading one of my Spiderman comic books. I was holding it on my legs and George was sitting next to me, staring intently at my lap. He … Continue reading Fanfiction of If I Ever Get Out of Here →

Marina Sullivan Throughout this course thus far, we have touched on the concept of adolescence as a transitional period between childhood and adulthood. This period, which occurs within a blurred range of one’s early pre-teen and teenage years, is characterized by a mix of youth and maturity, when one is not quite an adult but … Continue reading The Firsts of Adolescence →

This Is Me This is Me is a song from The Greatest Showman. It truly embodies what it means to be different. Verse 1: I am not a stranger to the dark Hide away, they say 'Cause we don't want your broken parts I've learned to be ashamed of all my scars Run away, they say … Continue reading This Is Me →

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yt96focL_oc The workplace is not always an environment in which men and women are treated equally. This is seen in an episode of The Office when the character Dwight has a clear inability to see a woman in any position of power. He is told to demonstrate how he would normally sell to a female … Continue reading Why are Men Scared of Powerful Women? →

Sarah Collins Mean Girlsis a 2004 teen comedy classic that sums up girlhood within adolescence in an exaggerated, yet relatable way. It also happens to be one of my go-to movies on a Saturday night in. This film tells the story of a girl, Cady, who recently moved to your typical upper-middle class, suburban high … Continue reading Mean Girls and Girlhood →